A huge Cold War nuclear bunker built for the dictator Enver Hoxha, with 106 rooms on five floors, now a museum of Albania's communist history and art. Bunk'Art 2, in the city centre, focuses on the secret police.
In Tirana, also see Skanderbeg Square, the Et'hem Bey Mosque, the colourful buildings, the 'Pyramid', and the Blloku district of cafés. Take the Dajti Ekspres cable car up Mount Dajti for views.
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A classic one-day hike over the Albanian Alps (the Accursed Mountains), between the remote villages of Valbona and Theth, crossing the Valbona Pass a…
A UNESCO-listed hill town of grey stone tower houses with slate roofs, built by Ottoman-era merchants, below a huge castle that holds a museum of wea…
A stretch of coast in southern Albania with turquoise water, white pebble beaches and villages backed by mountains.
An ancient city inhabited for 2,500 years, by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Venetians, set among woods and water on a peninsula near the Greek border.
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